Overview

• At a monograph launch, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said India has halted the treaty and now claims exclusive control over the Jhelum and Chenab rivers.
• Initiated by Prime Minister Modi after the April Pahalgam terror attack, the suspension tied water rights directly to counterterrorism policy.
• Jammu and Kashmir is preparing to launch new irrigation canals, hydropower plants and reservoirs without requiring Pakistan’s consent.
• Officials warn that stripping Pakistan of treaty-based water will threaten irrigation for 16 million hectares and affect 237 million people, squeezing the country’s economy.
• The J&K administration will treat future terrorist acts as war, pursue justice for victims, vacate properties seized from terror-victim families by August and take legal action against sympathizers of The Resistance Front.